The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein
Most of the books that I include in Flashback Fridays have a particular memory or time in my life tied to them. This one, not so much. I know that I read it when I was very young and that I was still reading it when I was in [...]
March 10, 2010 – 12:40 pm
The Book: Little Bee, by Chris Cleave
The Story: For the first time ever, I’m just going to copy the “teaser” on the back of the book:
“We don’t want to tell you what happens in this book. It is a truly special story and we don’t want to spoil it. Nevertheless, you need to know enough [...]
No reason other than my Borders is going out of business, and I like you guys.
This, for me, is one of the books that has both. I didn’t expect to like it at all, and I was totally blown away. I convinced the girls in my book club to read this for our book this [...]
The Book: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, by Hunter S. Thompson
The Story: Thompson and his Samoan attorney have, “two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, [...]
The Giver, by Lois Lowry
Nothing gets me quite like a good dystopian book. I love them. The Giver was, I’m sure, the first book that I read that was set in another version of the future, and I was in love with it.
The thing that Lois Lowry did perfectly was give us just enough information [...]
Jason is a near and dear friend. He was the best man in our wedding. We love him. He is also a constant source of techy-jealousy in our house. When he got an iPhone before Shaun, Shaun was inconsolable for days. Seriously. This time, a little ol’ e-reader that is the device prompting envy. I [...]
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”
-The Lorax, Dr. Seuss
The Book: The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red, edited by Joyce Reardon, Ph. D.
The Story: This is the diary of a young woman living in Seattle around the turn of the century. She is courted by and then marries a rich oil tycoon named John Rimbauer. He is in the process [...]